GIVE A ROUSE TO REUNERS

Gharlie Nearburg 72 couldn't make it back to Hanover for his 25 th Reunion because he was in France racing at Le Mans. So his reuning classmates set up a big television in their reunion tent to follow the 24-hour race. Unfortunately, after 160 miles of the 2,888-mile race, Nearburg's Ferrari 333 SP had mechanical problems with the fuel system and didn't finish the race. "It was a huge disappointment," says Near barg, "especially as we qualified in sixth place, just ahead of Michael and Mario Andretti." Nearburg plans to spend his summer competingin the races, of the CART PPG World Series Indy in a car belonging to NFL star Walter Payton; Catch him reaching speeds of 220 mph in the Grand Prix of Monterey-Bank of America 300 September 7 on ESPN.

• Gene Booth '57, executive director of the Rhode Island Human Rights Commission, honored by the National Conference of Rhode Island and Southeastern New England with a humanitarian award

• Lewis Home Jr. '72, named president of the National Minority Golf Foundation • Barry Harwick '77. Dartmouth men's track and cross-country coach, coached the U.S. men's senior team to an 11 th-place finish at the World Cross Country Championships in Italy

• Hunter Madsen '77, helped engineer a new advertising-editorial blend at Wired magazine's on-line publication, Hot Wired

• Valerie Steele '78, named chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She is also the author of Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power( Oxford, 1996).

• Nnamudi Mokwunye '92, whose pictographs involving botde gourds were featured in a master of fine arts thesis exhibit, "In Gourd We Trust," at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst